Karl Emil James Koch.Equal parts designer & developer
Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo
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I’m currently the inaugural Design Engineer at DuckDuckGo, leading the design and frontend of our AI-Assisted Answers as part of our core Search product.
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- 02 Jul 2025
Siri vs. AI Chatbots Siri's original 2011 demo anticipated today's AI chatbots, yet Apple's vision of invisible integration trumps conversational interfaces
- 27 Jun 2025
Designing the Invisible Privacy isn't just a feature—it's invisible architecture that protects people while delivering seamless experiences in our surveillance world.
- 04 Jul 2025
Beauty Comes From Absence "Shinto's Ma concept reveals true elegance through absence—a philosophy I've studied for years and apply to design, where subtraction creates beauty."
Music I've Written
Simulacra Hive Mind ✺ 2024 ✺ E.P.
Ever After Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ E.P.
2029 Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ Single
Pyre Echoes ✺ 2022 ✺ Single
Bad Dream Slowdance ✺ 2019 ✺ L.P.
Cornerstone Echoes ✺ 2017 ✺ L.P.
A Year in the Light Echoes ✺ 2016 ✺ Single
The Pursuit Echoes ✺ 2014 ✺ L.P.
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